From TFA: The vulnerability lies with the Windows Server service, and more specifically with Microsoft's implementation of "remote procedure call" (RPC), a communications technology deeply embedded in the Windows operating system that allows a program to execute another process on a remote system.
From the looks of it, simply blocking SMB won't do the trick. Remember Blaster? That was also a RPC trick. Killing the RPC service might work, but you'd be surprised at how Windows reacts to that. (hint: shutdown -a is your friend)
I have been there and have given up. Keeping up with BSD, Solaris, Mac and Windows updates and bugs is simply not possible. I stoppen when FreeBSD suddenly decided to 'delete' mod_php (there was a note in/usr/ports/updating about a new Apache framework).
Now I simply follow one set (RHEL/Fedora) and set make sure I set it up secure.
Indeed, it's a few people out of a lot of cars. Unfortunately a few rotten apples, if handled badly, can leave a bad taste. If the garages would check the cells individually and keep down the cost, there would be nothing to worry about.
Unfortunately, the garages prefer to replace the entire battery pack and don't want to inform people in advance. (try reading that entire page, you'll see how the 'angry' customers are warning friends not to go hybrid)
Uhm, yes, indeed, terminal... normallty, that's what I'd do, but is I look at teh picture in this article, that's not something I'd do myself. With any luck, battery monitoring comes automatically when they switch to Li-Ion batteries. From what I recall, those cannot be sold without battery management (risk of fire, stuff like that)
You indeed raise an interesting point in the replacement-battery, ehm, industry. the Hybrid market has only just started and I am looking forward to all the 'modifications' that will arise once batteries start dying. From experience at (electrical engineering) school, usually a single cell will bring down an otherwise fine battery pack. A new industry of 'battery maintenance engineers' will arise (maybe from the shipping/naval industry?).
Who knows what else will arise, now hybrid is taking off? (anyone else suspect the government might (artificially) keep the gas price high, so people will continue to buy hybrids after oil prices (may) drop)? Keep in mind, that the US gas price is still a fraction of average Western European gas prices.
"My 2001 Toyota Prius lasted five years and 113,000 miles. And then the batteries seemed to die. My dealer estimated the replacement cost at $7,000. They recommended scrapping the car for parts."
From what I can see, a lot of those problems are caused by corrosion on a battery termina, which can be fixed by swapping out that one cell ($1,345, all in). However, repair shops seem to prefer selling a full set of batteries for $3000 over replacing a simgle battery for $1300.
If you read the comments after the article, you can see that there's quite a few people that have had this happen.
Well I hate to rain on your parade, but I just got a quote on a battery replacement for a 2003 Honda Insight with 150,000 miles. Try $6312.70 !!!!!!! The battery (refurbished) replaced and 2 control modules plus labor.
We have a 2003 Civic Hybrid we bought for what we thought was a great price. Now the IMA light comes on and the dealer says it it the battery pack.
The battery problem is real. My 01 Prius with 158,000 miles has just been diagnosed with failing batteries; all at once with no warning; $3600 plus tax. As salvage the car has almost no value.
The battery in my 2001 Prius has failed after 109K miles, repairs estimated at $4000+. Warranty is 100k miles. Toyota Corp does not offer any help at all. My dealer has offered to replace with parts at cost and no labor charge, but that only amounts to a few hundred dollars.
Ah, my bad, I didn't notice the full-electric bit.
Plug-in hybrid and full-electric will require some changes in the national electricity grid, but it will pave the way to full-electric. I wonder how they will find a way to 'refuel' those batteries on long-haul trips. Maybe Toshiba's new laptop battery will provide a solution.
(also, this means that people will need to look at how their electricity is generated, if they want to be 'greener')
I didn't say they required more service, it's just that when they require service, it's more complex than your everyday gas engine check-up. From whay I see, Toyota is very busy training mechanics to service the hybrids, but not every garage keeps up with the times as quickly as the rest.
Now that gas prices have soared everybody want a hybrid but, a few years ago, you couldn't give them away with a pack of Cheerios. Now that some people hafe felt the sting of a battery replacement (not helped by car dealers that only want to replace the entire battery), they're not happy about paying $3000 they did not budget for.
Also, don't get me wrong, I really want to see this succeed, because this is indeed the start of the Electric revolution. Maybe, in the future, we will get our flying car, powered by a Mr Fusion;-)
Have you seen the cost of high-power batteries? Especially the ones that can survive the strain of driving electric-only (charge-drain-charge-drain)? try $3000,-- Unless you own a Hybrid, according to Car & Driver
"battery replacement will cost $5,300 for the Toyota and Lexus hybrids, and the Ford Escape replacements run a whopping $7,200."
Also, someone needt to make room for those batteries somewhere in the car. The required equipment (for modifying the car itself) and man-hours also cost money.
Keep in mind, that hydrids still have a combustion engine, that's why they call it a hybrid and not an electric car. Adding extra parts (generator, batteries, electric motor) only makes the car more complex, harder to service and more expensive. Hybrids are pushed onto the consumer so car companies get an incentive to invest (R&D) in electric vehicles, making them cheaper,
more reliable and more efficient in the future.
As an added bonus, the on-board computer is so powerful, they had enough processor power to spare to build a cool LC Display in the dashboard.
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You should have seen the shit-fit a colleague threw when I remarked on the picture of her hairy pussy(cat).
The price is not usually the problem. I currently work for a large company and I needed an SSH client for my *berry. This client enables the 24*7 dept. I work with to quickly diagnose problems and implement quick fixes. The licence was only $90 but the purchase required someone to put a Credit card number on a web form. No-one in the purchasing dept. has a company credit card, much less an idea of how to use it.
I ended up buying the licence myself and having the company buy me a 500GB USB disk. And, yes, this organisation will spend hundreds of dollars in administration on a $25 order.
I just migrated a few very important clusters to HP/9000 to Intel Linux, because the HP hardware was seriously out of date and the Intel platform (DL380) provided nearly the same fault-tolerance and seriously more horsepower for 1/10th of the price. (Keep in mind, this was done because the App itself tended to provide 99% uptime, so moving from 99.99% hardware to 99.9% hardware goes unnoticed)
Technically, the bottom 3 rungs of the OSI ladder remain intact, because Virtual Machines use discrete MAC addresses and all machines are joined with VLANs. The firewall (usually at the border of the VLAN) will not notice if the VM moves from one host to another, because the MAC address stays the same, only the switch in between the VM hosts might notice the MAC has moved.
Have you considered doing minimal Linux installs inside your VMWare? This way you can store more VMs on one machine. You can also take the BSD approach and share your/usr from the host O/S to the guest O/S through NFS or the like, also saving disk space. Xen on Linux already gets rid of a few layers by implementing paravirtualization.
If you combine all 3 measures, you can host several high-performance VMs one a relatively small machine.
Personally, I would simply buy a bigger disk and more RAM, because that $300 of equipment will save weeks on development.
Actually, I had my dad help me debug my Pascal programs and he's never programmed anything in his life. Aside from that, I try to let programmers handle programming work and if I don't trust it, I get an auditor in. These days, there is too much detail in each and every sub-field to think you can keep up with multiple fields at the same time.
By the time of DOS 6, I found a different solution: I set up a config.sys menu that set up the system the way I wanted it to run. It had generic entries (XMS, EMS, Clean) and game-specific entries. (It even had sub-menus and entries to go back to the main menu)
You could even pick up the current Config.sys mode in your autoexec.bat and automatically start a game!
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From TFA:
The vulnerability lies with the Windows Server service, and more specifically with Microsoft's implementation of "remote procedure call" (RPC),
a communications technology deeply embedded in the Windows operating system that allows a program to execute another process on a remote system.
From the looks of it, simply blocking SMB won't do the trick.
Remember Blaster? That was also a RPC trick.
Killing the RPC service might work, but you'd be surprised at how Windows reacts to that.
(hint: shutdown -a is your friend)
Every version before ME was also more stable.
ME was simply the lowest point attained by MS.
So you want the client to be able to tell the server "Don't worry, I already checked it".
A very nice feature indeed.
I have been there and have given up. /usr/ports/updating about a new Apache framework).
Keeping up with BSD, Solaris, Mac and Windows updates and bugs is simply not possible.
I stoppen when FreeBSD suddenly decided to 'delete' mod_php (there was a note in
Now I simply follow one set (RHEL/Fedora) and set make sure I set it up secure.
Indeed, it's a few people out of a lot of cars.
Unfortunately a few rotten apples, if handled badly, can leave a bad taste.
If the garages would check the cells individually and keep down the cost, there would be nothing to worry about.
Unfortunately, the garages prefer to replace the entire battery pack and don't want to inform people in advance.
(try reading that entire page, you'll see how the 'angry' customers are warning friends not to go hybrid)
You mean this?
Uhm, yes, indeed, terminal...
normallty, that's what I'd do, but is I look at teh picture in this article, that's not something I'd do myself.
With any luck, battery monitoring comes automatically when they switch to Li-Ion batteries.
From what I recall, those cannot be sold without battery management (risk of fire, stuff like that)
You indeed raise an interesting point in the replacement-battery, ehm, industry.
the Hybrid market has only just started and I am looking forward to all the 'modifications' that will arise once batteries start dying.
From experience at (electrical engineering) school, usually a single cell will bring down an otherwise fine battery pack.
A new industry of 'battery maintenance engineers' will arise (maybe from the shipping/naval industry?).
Who knows what else will arise, now hybrid is taking off?
(anyone else suspect the government might (artificially) keep the gas price high, so people will continue to buy hybrids after oil prices (may) drop)?
Keep in mind, that the US gas price is still a fraction of average Western European gas prices.
That's the funniest thing I've seen all day! ;-) )
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You mean this?
"My 2001 Toyota Prius lasted five years and 113,000 miles. And then the batteries seemed to die. My dealer estimated the replacement cost at $7,000. They recommended scrapping the car for parts."
From what I can see, a lot of those problems are caused by corrosion on a battery termina, which can be fixed by swapping out that one cell ($1,345, all in).
However, repair shops seem to prefer selling a full set of batteries for $3000 over replacing a simgle battery for $1300.
If you read the comments after the article, you can see that there's quite a few people that have had this happen.
Well I hate to rain on your parade, but I just got a quote on a battery replacement for a 2003 Honda Insight with 150,000 miles.
Try $6312.70 !!!!!!!
The battery (refurbished) replaced and 2 control modules plus labor.
We have a 2003 Civic Hybrid we bought for what we thought was a great price. Now the IMA light comes on and the dealer says it it the battery pack.
The battery problem is real. My 01 Prius with 158,000 miles has just been diagnosed with failing batteries; all at once with no warning; $3600 plus tax. As salvage the car has almost no value.
The battery in my 2001 Prius has failed after 109K miles, repairs estimated at $4000+. Warranty is 100k miles. Toyota Corp does not offer any help at all. My dealer has offered to replace with parts at cost and no labor charge, but that only amounts to a few hundred dollars.
Ah, my bad, I didn't notice the full-electric bit.
Plug-in hybrid and full-electric will require some changes in the national electricity grid, but it will pave the way to full-electric.
I wonder how they will find a way to 'refuel' those batteries on long-haul trips.
Maybe Toshiba's new laptop battery will provide a solution.
(also, this means that people will need to look at how their electricity is generated, if they want to be 'greener')
I didn't say they required more service, it's just that when they require service, it's more complex than your everyday gas engine check-up.
From whay I see, Toyota is very busy training mechanics to service the hybrids, but not every garage keeps up with the times as quickly as the rest.
Now that gas prices have soared everybody want a hybrid but, a few years ago, you couldn't give them away with a pack of Cheerios.
Now that some people hafe felt the sting of a battery replacement (not helped by car dealers that only want to replace the entire battery), they're not happy about paying $3000 they did not budget for.
Also, don't get me wrong, I really want to see this succeed, because this is indeed the start of the Electric revolution. ;-)
Maybe, in the future, we will get our flying car, powered by a Mr Fusion
Have you seen the cost of high-power batteries?
Especially the ones that can survive the strain of driving electric-only (charge-drain-charge-drain)? try $3000,--
Unless you own a Hybrid, according to Car & Driver
"battery replacement will cost $5,300 for the Toyota and Lexus hybrids, and the Ford Escape replacements run a whopping $7,200."
Also, someone needt to make room for those batteries somewhere in the car.
The required equipment (for modifying the car itself) and man-hours also cost money.
Keep in mind, that hydrids still have a combustion engine, that's why they call it a hybrid and not an electric car.
Adding extra parts (generator, batteries, electric motor) only makes the car more complex, harder to service and more expensive.
Hybrids are pushed onto the consumer so car companies get an incentive to invest (R&D) in electric vehicles, making them cheaper,
more reliable and more efficient in the future.
As an added bonus, the on-board computer is so powerful, they had enough processor power to spare to build a cool LC Display in the dashboard.
You should have seen the shit-fit a colleague threw when I remarked on the picture of her hairy pussy(cat).
My guess is, the employee would have stored the XML file (with the company's installation key) inside the encrypted volume.
Net effect: zero
The price is not usually the problem.
I currently work for a large company and I needed an SSH client for my *berry.
This client enables the 24*7 dept. I work with to quickly diagnose problems and implement quick fixes.
The licence was only $90 but the purchase required someone to put a Credit card number on a web form.
No-one in the purchasing dept. has a company credit card, much less an idea of how to use it.
I ended up buying the licence myself and having the company buy me a 500GB USB disk.
And, yes, this organisation will spend hundreds of dollars in administration on a $25 order.
I just migrated a few very important clusters to HP/9000 to Intel Linux, because the HP hardware was seriously out of date and the Intel platform (DL380) provided nearly the same fault-tolerance and seriously more horsepower for 1/10th of the price.
(Keep in mind, this was done because the App itself tended to provide 99% uptime, so moving from 99.99% hardware to 99.9% hardware goes unnoticed)
Technically, the bottom 3 rungs of the OSI ladder remain intact, because Virtual Machines use discrete MAC addresses and all machines are joined with VLANs. The firewall (usually at the border of the VLAN) will not notice if the VM moves from one host to another, because the MAC address stays the same, only the switch in between the VM hosts might notice the MAC has moved.
Have you considered doing minimal Linux installs inside your VMWare? This way you can store more VMs on one machine. /usr from the host O/S to the guest O/S through NFS or the like, also saving disk space.
You can also take the BSD approach and share your
Xen on Linux already gets rid of a few layers by implementing paravirtualization.
If you combine all 3 measures, you can host several high-performance VMs one a relatively small machine.
Personally, I would simply buy a bigger disk and more RAM, because that $300 of equipment will save weeks on development.
Actually, I had my dad help me debug my Pascal programs and he's never programmed anything in his life.
Aside from that, I try to let programmers handle programming work and if I don't trust it, I get an auditor in.
These days, there is too much detail in each and every sub-field to think you can keep up with multiple fields at the same time.
I thought COBOL was meant to be readable by finance execs?
I know a bit about programming and this is more confusing than some Perl scripts I know!
*brain melts
I wish I could un-see that
Please tell me that you don't run one of Bob Sharpe's old COBOL programs.
I had to write shell scripts around it to actually produce something useful.
By the time of DOS 6, I found a different solution:
I set up a config.sys menu that set up the system the way I wanted it to run.
It had generic entries (XMS, EMS, Clean) and game-specific entries.
(It even had sub-menus and entries to go back to the main menu)
You could even pick up the current Config.sys mode in your autoexec.bat and automatically start a game!